THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Renowned oncologist Dr. MV Pillai has asked parents not let their kids use or play with mobile phones. "Though mobile phone radiation is considered non-ionising, the soft skull of kids may not be able to resist them", he said while delivering a talk on `Mobile Technologies and Health' at a...
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The international meet on transnational education, organized by the Kerala State Higher Education Council (KSHEC), concluded on Sunday with the release of the Thiruvananthapuram Declaration on Transnational Education. One of the major plans, mentioned in the declaration, is to establish an...
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The LDF on Monday alleged that the UPA government had increased the price of LPG cylinders so that private oil companies can make profits at the cost of the state exchequer. Moving an adjournment motion on the LPG cylinder issue, CPM MLA Thomas Isaac said that the random increase of Rs 230...
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan said that the claim of K R Gowri that she was offered the chief minister's post by the CPM prior to the 2006 assembly elections was not factual. "Anybody who knows about the organizational set-up of the CPM and the functioning of the party knows how muc...
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The state government will start six new women police stations, as part of ensuring more representation of women in the force. The decision was taken at the meeting of senior police officials chaired by home minister Ramesh Chennithala here on Monday.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Home minister and Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Ramesh Chennithala has made it clear that his successor for the KPCC president post will be announced by the Congress high command any day after January 9.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The state electricity board on Saturday announced the list of winners in the power conservation drive it launched last year as part of increasing public awareness on need for prudent use of electricity.

The board will present solar inverters as bumper prize to 50 consumers w...
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A row has erupted over the report submitted by the expert panel constituted by the state government to review the Kasturirangan panel report on Western Ghats, as sections of the greens and political leaders have opposed its key recommendation to expunge the Environmentally Fragile Land (EF...
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